Industrial-Automation
Case Study
Industrial-Automation
The customer is a Fortune 500 company providing industrial automation and information technology, with an annual revenue of $6.3 billion. With over 100 years of existence, they are listed in the top 5 within their vertical. The company is publicly listed and headquartered in the USA.
The Problem
The customer manufactures PLCs and sensor devices for enabling industrial automation for clients such as major automobile and retail giants. Their IoT devices generate an enormous amount of data, but they lacked a solution to analyze real-time data from their PLCs. Building a product from the ground up to offer real-time analytics would take the customer at least 3 years.
The Solution
BIRD’s architecture is designed to handle both batch and real-time data. Its high-performance distributed columnar engine, along with multiple real-time connectors and messaging-driven architecture using Kafka/RabbitMQ, made it the perfect fit for the customer’s requirements. BIRD’s solution was deployed across 60 of their customer plants, processing data from more than 10,000 sensors.
The Results
- Cost savings from proactive maintenance are estimated at approximately $1 million per plant.
- Savings from automation in the reporting process are around $300,000 per customer, with efficiencies gained in data preparation, report creation, and maintenance.
- Report generation time has been reduced from days or weeks to just minutes